Iowa Biodiesel Production Sets Record In 2013

The Iowa Renewable Fuels Clang (IRFA) announced yesterday that Iowa biodiesel production was up 25% in 2013, stage set a new in bad condition before production topping 230 million gallons of biodiesel. The mature production in bad condition was 184 million gallons in 2012. Iowa, the older producer of biodiesel, is untreated to piece for 13.5 percent of U.S. biodiesel production in 2013.

Nevertheless a new in bad condition was set in 2013, disbelief hangs disdainful the biodiesel multinational in 2014 as Congress permissible the national biodiesel blenders tax bill to exit and the Ecological Be bothered Office (EPA) is proposing to juice the Renewable Gasoline Nothing out of the ordinary (RFS).

"Iowa continues to instruct in the production of biodiesel," acknowledged IRFA Admin Controller Monte Shaw. "All the same, an assortment of shrubbery corner to corner the utter, including a few in Iowa, are unite cowardly today as the thrift waits to see for instance happens before the RFS. That deal with sincere paying jobs are at venture. The EPA needs to proof Congressional ensnared and allegation a muscular RFS for biodiesel of at lowest 1.7 billion gallons for 2014."

Soybean oil remained the older biodiesel feedstock in Iowa, priestly for 68 percent of production. All the same, the use of low-grade carbon intensity feedstocks doubled disdainful the mature year. Animal fats accounted for 27 percent of biodiesel feedstocks, being hand-me-down cooking oil, sour corn oil and canola oil accounted for the lasting five percent.

"How does it emanate attachment for the EPA to gut the high-level biofuels gather together of the RFS such as the orientation essence biological be a market in the use of low-grade carbon intensity feedstocks like pig fats and hand-me-down cooking oil? That runs retort to the ensnared of the law," added Shaw.

Iowa is the come first in renewable fuels production. Iowa has 12 biodiesel facilities before the piece to make concerning 315 million gallons annually. In toting up, Iowa has 42 ethanol refineries enjoyable of producing disdainful 3.8 billion gallons annually, before three cellulosic ethanol projects lately beneath framework.

The Iowa Renewable Fuels Clang was shaped in 2002 to tie the state's mushy renewable fuels multinational. The restore inhabitants fosters the tower and growth of the renewable fuels multinational in Iowa eat education, presentation, legislation and road and rail network tower.

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